Combined coin and check collecting box.



No. 634,359. Patented Oct. 3,1899 r. B. MANY.

COMBINED COIN AND CHECK COLLECTING BOX. (Applicationfiled. July 23, 597. (No Model.)

2% Z i'qZ/ UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK l3. MANY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO- COMBINED COIN AND CHECK COLLECTING BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 634,359, dated October 3, 1899.

Application filed July 23,1897. Serial No. 645,699. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK B. MANY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Oleveland,county of Cuyal1oga,State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Coin and Check Collecting Box, of which I herebydeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in combined coin or check collecting boxes; and the object of the invention is to provide a protective form of conduit through which the coin or check will readily pass to the coin-receptacle, but cannot be returned by placing the box in any angular or inverted position.

To accomplish this object, I employ diagonally-placed pockets or receptacles for balls, which open into the conduit, up and down the sides thereof, and so arranged that the balls or some of them will roll into the conduit opening and efi'ectually close it if the box is inverted or placed in any diagonal position.

The invention is illustrated inthe accompanying figures, hereinafter described in detail, and specifically pointed outin the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a transverse vertical sectional view of the conduit, and Fig. 2 is a side view of the conduit.

In the views, 1 is the box; 2, the conduit leading directly to the trap 3, which is placed behind a sight-window 4.

5 is the receptacle in which the coins or checks are finally deposited.

6 6 are pockets inserted at intervals upon the walls of the conduit-and depending angularly therefrom, so that when the conduit is in the vertical position the balls 7 placed in the pockets will fall away from the conduit-passage to the bottom of the pockets and leave the conduit clear. In this position a coin or check dropped into the conduit will pass at once into the coin-receptacle below. As soon, however, as the box is tipped ever so little from the vertical position one or more of the balls will run into the conduit-opening and effectually prevent the return passage of the coin or check through the conduit. When placed completely upside down, all the balls will cross the passage, and when slightly turned the balls on theupper side of the conduit will fall into the passage.

What I claim, therefore, as new,,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a combined coin or check collecting box the combination therewith of a conduit,

cylindrical pockets depending angularlytherefrom, and opening into said conduit, and balls within said pockets adapted to roll across said conduit-passage when the box is inverted, substantially as described.

2. In a combined coin or check collecting box, the combination therewith of a conduit, a coin-receptacle under said conduit, a trap between said conduit and receptacle, pockets opening into said conduit and angularly depending therefrom, and ballsin said pockets, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

FRANK B. MANY.

Witnesses:

WM. M. MONROE, ARTHUR B. RUST. 

